Sustainability: Foseco at GIFA 2023
09 Jun 2023
How do you do more with less? This is the question at the heart of sustainability. But what does it mean for foundry operations? Visit Foseco at GIFA 2023 to find out.
Sustainability is a challenge that covers a whole range of issues facing the foundry industry today. It means improving casting quality and yield. It means reducing consumption of energy and materials. It means cutting emissions that are harmful to worker health. And of course, it means reducing the industry’s carbon footprint.
The development of products and services that deliver these sustainability goals is what gets us up in the morning (and sometimes keeps us up at night). We will highlight several of our latest innovations at GIFA 2023, the leading international trade show for the foundry industry, which takes place 12-16 June in Düsseldorf, Germany. We’ll be exhibiting at Stand No. 12A01/12A01 in Hall 12.
Flouride-free sleeves
FEEDEX FEF sleeves turn the focus back onto the removal of harmful substances from the foundry environment. Available in all product geometries from the standard FEEDEX product range, its fluoride-free formulation helps reduce fluoride emissions and fluoride-containing waste. They also deliver much lower VOC emissions that other market alternatives.
Alongside our other fluoride-free products, KALMINEX 2000 FF and the fluoride-free KALMINEX SD formulation, FEEDEX FEF thus improves the foundry environment for workers, while eliminating the need to dispose of environmentally-harmful waste products. Go to FEEDEX FEF product page
The SEMCO family of coatings: SEMCO FF and FD
SEMCO fast-drying (FD) coatings cut drying times compared to traditional water-based coatings, resulting in lower energy consumption for drying, while optimising mould line productivity. Coating performance is also improved, delivering better surface quality and reducing the need for post-casting machining. The result is a coating that reduces energy consumption and carbon emissions associated with drying and rework.
Meanwhile, SEMCO FF reduces formaldehyde emissions into the foundry environment in line with tightening regulation of these harmful emissions. SEMCO FF and FD can also be combined into a single coating solution to maximise sustainability benefits. Go to product page
Daily video from GIFA
One of the topics on everybody’s lips in all four fairs that make up The Bright World of Metals quartet is #sustainability, whether that be the impact this is having on the end users that purchase castings, the way in which foundries produce those castings and the steps that consumable and equipment suppliers are taking to help customers with their sustainability objectives.
However, sustainability is no longer just an inconvenience, or an unwanted added cost driven by legislation – green business is more often than not good business, as Tim Birch, Global Product Director for Coatings explains.